Hello Filmmakers, This meetup is about making films. We will mainly focus on shooting scenes andshorts in class for the purpose of finishing work as part of our curriculum.We will cover the basics of lighting, camera handling and shooting, scene scripts and screenwriting, acting and continuity, shot list and frame selection, acting basics and editing, among others.This is for beginning filmmakers so that they can workshop all theaspects of filmmaking using the equipment (lights, camera, boom mi …

This meetup will give members a chance to read stories to others. We will explore children's stories, fiction, autobiographical, and readers theater. This will also have acting style exercises to help with voice and expressiveness. This will start in early March

This group is for those who are involved with, or desire to be involved with, the creation of Films. Whether your interest is in writing, acting, cinematography, directing, producing, and/or any other aspect of the films industry, you've come to the right place! We share ideas, educational events and assist each other with film projects. Join us and please tell us a bit about what your particular interests are in creating Films!

The Scriptwriters Network, founded in 1986, is an educational, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit, volunteer-driven organization created by writers for writers and industry professionals. The Network serves its members by providing educational programming, enhancing their awareness of the realities of the business, developing access and opportunity through alliances with industry professionals, and furthering the cause and quality of writing in the entertainment industry. Whether you are a filmmake …

LETS EXPLORE THE WORLD OF DSLR CAMERAS IN A CINEMATIC WAY, THIS MEET UP IS FOR  ANYYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO COLLABORATE ON DIFFERENT PROJECTS SUCH AS MUSIC VIDEOS, SHORT FILMS ,ACTOR REELS, AND COMMERCIALS.  LETS  LEARN TOGETHER AND DEVELOPE SOME MASTER PIECES. If you like to film, act ,model,dance,write,edit and want to share your skills this is the place for you. We will  have project meetings so we can come up with  ideas and concepts. After the meetings we will meet once a week until the proje …

       The Conejo-Simi Valley Writers Group seeks to bond and strengthen its writer-members in their desire to become better writers. We are here to help our members discover how to write at the top of their form, to edit their work to near-perfection, to get published, and to then encourage them to repeat the write-edit-publish formula over and over.        This Group is open to both published and unpublished writers whose writing interests might be expressed across a wide range of formats and …

The Hollywood Film Making Workshop, HFW, is an ongoing collaborative film making workshop that meets weekly (sometimes daily) to make feature-length films with Meetup members who are either professional or want to learn to become professional Directors, Screenwriters, Actors, Producers, Directors of Photography, Gaffers, Grips, Production Designers, Costume Designers, Makeup Artists, Production Sound Mixers, Script Supervisors, Editors, Production Managers, and Assistant Directors. As our featur …

The Artist Way started out as a collaboration of tips and hints from various artists and authors. It is a 12 week program designed to help people open up creatively, also helps creative people who are feeling blocked or uninspired, it also helps people who aren't sure what they want to do creatively they just want to do SOMETHING. I started working with the artist way several years ago when I was feeling empty of any sort of creativity. It has helped me and countless others. I tried doing it by …

This is a networking group for producers, directors, actors and crew in the Los Angeles area.  Please feel free to communicate with all members ... Thank you, Christy www.ChristySands.com  

DUNGEON MASTER is a role playing game staged in a theatre using actors as monsters and characters. The show is totally improvised by both the cast and the audience. YOU ARE THE ADVENTURER! Each week, a new scenario is written which provides the framework for an adventure, but what is said and what happens on stage is often quite unexpected. The adventuring party is chosen from audience members who submit their name before the play starts. The current run is EIGHT YEARS in Los Angeles. …

IMPROV MEETUP: This group is for: 1. Improv teams searching for shows 2. For Improv actors looking to be in a venue troupe 3. For Improv fans!!!  (come see Improv shows!!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. TEAMS: Improv Teams/Sketch comedy groups - We're looking for quality teams that have professional training from the top Improv LA schools, and we’re producing shows for the best teams in town. ------------------------------------------------------------ …

Good Fellas is a place for guys who want to practice being their true selves and dropping the act that hasn’t been working.  Look, we all have an act -- it's called our personality. But we get to a point where the things we thought meant success don't feel right anymore, and we start wondering who we really are and what we're up to. It’s so easy for guys to write each other off and pretend we’ve got no problems and don’t need a good friend to listen now and then. Or to think of each other only …

The Women Helping Women in Entertainment ™MeetUp is an extension of our organization, Women Helping Women™in Entertainment Network (WHW) (http://WHWNETWORK.com), which provides unparalleled opportunities for women (and progressive, like-minded men) in the entertainment industry.  WHW exists for the purpose of supporting, assisting, and empowering women in entertainment, and for the mutual benefit, education, support, mentoring, networking, collaboration, employment opportunities, and genera …

The Women in Entertainment ™MeetUp is an extension of our organization, Women Helping Women™in Entertainment Network (WHW) (http://WHWNETWORK.com), which provides unparalleled opportunities for women (and progressive, like-minded men) in the entertainment industry.  WHW exists for the purpose of supporting, assisting, and empowering women in entertainment, and for the mutual benefit, education, support, mentoring, networking, collaboration, employment opportunities, and general career advan …

Writing a novel? Screenplay? Non Fiction? Comedy? Regardless of the genre, writing is a solitary act. But sometimes its good for the writer's soul to connect with other writers. This is an informal group that meets once a month to talk about writing, do some writing excercises, get feedback, ideas, or anything else you need to keep you inspired and writing.

This group is for people who want to stop thinking and talking about shooting video and actually do it. Money is usually the deciding factor in what we shoot or whether we shoot at all. This group will remove that issue and make it so you can shoot bigger and better projects than you ever thought you could. We will pool together our resources and talent and get some well polished, professional looking projects done. We will be doing studio quality work that will further our careers. The idea is …